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1) The female characters don't appear to be all that popular, and I wanted to know if this means that the chances of seeing a character like Jocasta Nu are pretty slim. I mean, she had a speaking part, which is more than can be said for other figures that have been released, but I don't remember ever hearing anything about her being made into a figure.
The odds of Jocasta Nu making it into the figure line are as slim as the chopsticks in her hair.
2) The Force Unleashed 3 Packs are hitting retail in the US. We were told in April, by the UK Office, that these will be coming to the UK as well (exclusive to Asda stores) and we wanted to know when these will be available?
The original retailer for these, Asda, passed on them and they will no longer be available in the UK in Spring '09. We are looking at ways of getting them in circulation for Fall '09 but there is nothing certain yet. If that does not work out, we will look at potential re-releases as "greatest hits" figures in the Droid Factory line at some point.
3) Obviously it's important to keep core characters out on the shelf so that children are able to buy them on impulse without having to wait what could amount to years in between some figure re-releases. We've just seen pictures of three re-released Legacy Collection Battle Packs (Clone Attack on Corsucant, Jedi Training on Dagobah and Jedi Vs. Darth Sidious); of these at least two of them have been released twice already making this their third outing. In the UK, earlier versions of these Battle Packs are still available in large numbers and since figures such as Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin are not core characters (or are they?), there are much better candidates for re-release in the hugely popular Battle Pack formats than these (a TFU Battle Pack with repacks to coincide with the games release, Droid Factory Capture, Betrayal at Bespin or the very hard to find Battle on Mygeeto to mention but a few)... so why these three again?
We released these three because they continue to be some of our best sellers. Jedi vs Darth Sidious in particular is a great set because it perfectly recreates one of the most iconic scenes of EpIII, which kids love, and the "cool" quotient is extremely high with so many Jedi and lightsabers. Agen Kolar and saesee Tiin, while not core characters, are cool Jedi which makes them great secondary characters and adds to the success of that particular pack.